DECART
VUCA
IMT
Designing higher Education Curricula for Agility, Resilience & Transformations
VUCA scenarii to assess agility and resilience
IMT is a member of the alliance EULiST, European Universities Linking Society and Technology, part of the “European Universities” initiative launched by the European Commission, to modernise higher education in Europe in a comprehensive and sustainable manner.
A Time of Heightened Uncertainty in Higher Education
The DECART project is an international cooperation partnership, including France, Iceland, Indonesia, Lithuania, and South Africa. The primary goal is to allow partner’s organisations to increase the quality and relevance of their curriculum activities, to increase their capacity to operate jointly at transnational level, boosting internationalisation of their activities and through exchanging or developing new practices and methods as well as sharing and confronting ideas in curriculum design, with a focus on resilience and transformation.
Your Higher Education cup shaken by hazards, unknowns, disruptions, or even polycrisis♨️:
a time to react à la Française 
:
« un bon CAFE (coffee), du SUCRE de canne (sugar cane) et du LAIT entier (creamy milk) »,
with a European 
spoon to spearhead curriculum transformations 🙏🏼.
3 serious DECART tools:
CAFE: tool for Creative, Agile & Flexible Education design ;
SUCRE: Serious game for University Curriculum REsilience;
LAIT: tool for Leadership, Alignment, Influence & Transformation of curriculums.
Objectives
Share processes to assess & improve design, interoperability &
resilience of curricula, to be ready for curriculum change & transformations in disruptive contexts.
Since November 2025, the DECART project proposes a framework of methods & tools to guide STEM & Management educational leaders in original curriculum design & programme transformations according to unpredictable VUCA contexts. It identifies & share innovative curricula between project partners & international associated partners.
Activities
In 2024-25, DECART implemented and operated 3 collaborative Intensive Programmes for Higher Education programme leaders from the partnership (in France, Germany & South Africa), conducted quantitative and qualitative analysis, & reflected on original curriculum structures and properties. Numerous onsite and online Multiplier Events were organized to share the methodological results & tools, so as to confront and promote innovative curricula design thinking and transformations, within the partner’s countries (France, Lithuania, Germany, Iceland, South Africa, & Indonesia), as during international conferences (e.g. Finland, Norway, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, UK, Tunisia, Tanzania, Thailand, Australia).
Results
DECART delivers a Brochure, 9 Reports, 3 Games/Tools, 11 Videos, 26 Publications, 6 Newsletters, all include shared understanding of curriculum structures in partner countries, VUCA scenarii to assess agility & resilience, as guidelines for curriculum design & transformations.
A common Body of Knowledge is available via the 9 Reports, including change & transformation processes to inspire programme leaders. With the CAFE / SUCRE / LAIT tool chain, learning materials with guidelines are produced (co-design, crisis serious games, & leadership workshops).
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